Thread: Tired of ebook pricing
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Old 03-02-2014, 05:52 AM   #54
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Originally Posted by Lazybones View Post
My pricing complaint has to do with the long tail of eBook publishing. I'm willing to pay top dollar for a new book from an author I like, but it takes a really long time for the price to drop. I was looking at Amazon for some older fantasy/sci-fi books (20-30 years since original publication, in some cases), and the publisher was still asking $5-8 for the eBook.
Well, the cost for producing and sell the ebook is probably much higher than for a 20-30 years old ebook that was an ebook from the beginning.

There are older sf and fantasy books that are re-issued in differernt series like the Fantasy Masterwork series and you do not expect them to be cheaper. So it should depend on the book if it is cheap or not. A classic that will sell will not be cheap and why should it be cheap?
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